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thank you mr. chair. my suggestion and i make a motion that we move forward the reappointment of joseph flanagan for district six and with respect to the district three appointment that we continue that to the call of the chair, so that we have an opportunity to hear directly from the district three supervisor so that's my motion. >> commissioner kim. okay. so we heard that motion and second. is there any objection to that motion? then it carries. thank you. ms. ching. thank you everyone. please call item
thank you mr. chair. my suggestion and i make a motion that we move forward the reappointment of joseph flanagan for district six and with respect to the district three appointment that we continue that to the call of the chair, so that we have an opportunity to hear directly from the district three supervisor so that's my motion. >> commissioner kim. okay. so we heard that motion and second. is there any objection to that motion? then it carries. thank you. ms. ching. thank you everyone....
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mr. chair. >> thank you. so with that we will open up public comment and if you have not filled out a card and you wish public comment, please do so. i know there are folks in the audience for the next item about the western soma plan and it makes sense for you to fill out a card now, so we can be prepared when we get to public comment during the item president chiu. >> we have a number of cards and i will call them. [ reading speakers' names ] in addition to that if anyone else would like to make comment on this, please submit cards and line up on the right-hand side of the chamber facing us. >> mr. chair, two or three minutes? >> two minutes. >> may i begin? >> yes please. >> must name is tom lipy and i represent howard wong and save muni.com with respect to this project and i want to start by making sure that you have all the letters that i submitted both to the board of supervisors, also to the planning commission and to the mta. those are three letters dated february 5th, 14 and 19th and they attach lett
mr. chair. >> thank you. so with that we will open up public comment and if you have not filled out a card and you wish public comment, please do so. i know there are folks in the audience for the next item about the western soma plan and it makes sense for you to fill out a card now, so we can be prepared when we get to public comment during the item president chiu. >> we have a number of cards and i will call them. [ reading speakers' names ] in addition to that if anyone else...
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thank you mr. chair. my suggestion and i make a motion that we move forward the reappointment of joseph flanagan for district six and with respect to the district three appointment that we continue that to the call of the chair, so that we have an opportunity to hear directly from the district three supervisor so that's my motion. >> commissioner kim. okay. so we heard that motion and second. is there any objection to that motion? then it carries. thank you. ms. ching. thank you everyone. please call item five. >> item five is recommendation adoption of the fiscal year, 2013-2014 for the transportation fund for clean air. >> hello i am from the transportation authority. first for background on the transportation fund for clean air program. this program funds transportation projects that reduce emissions from motor vehicles. these funds are available generally through two means. first is the county fund and the regional fund. the regional fund receives a surcharge on vehicle registration fees on cars regis
thank you mr. chair. my suggestion and i make a motion that we move forward the reappointment of joseph flanagan for district six and with respect to the district three appointment that we continue that to the call of the chair, so that we have an opportunity to hear directly from the district three supervisor so that's my motion. >> commissioner kim. okay. so we heard that motion and second. is there any objection to that motion? then it carries. thank you. ms. ching. thank you everyone....
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the chair: mr. speaker, the committee of the whole house on the state of the union having had under consideration h.r. 444, directs me to report that it has come to no resolution thereon. the speaker pro tempore: the chair of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has had under consideration h.r. 444, and it came to no resolution thereon. 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess for a period of less than 15 minutes. >> this is her first visit with our group and we are very grateful she agreed to be here. especially since the last ambassador who visited us lost his job the next day. you're a woman in danger. our guest is the daughter of a prominent parents and a phi beta kappa graduate of smith college where she studied government and art history. she spent 20 years as a journalist in both print and broadcasting, and rose to became editor of "the herald" news magazine. in the political world she was first elected to parliament in 2002. to a
the chair: mr. speaker, the committee of the whole house on the state of the union having had under consideration h.r. 444, directs me to report that it has come to no resolution thereon. the speaker pro tempore: the chair of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has had under consideration h.r. 444, and it came to no resolution thereon. 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess for a period of less than 15 minutes. >> this is...
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you, mr. chair mentioned the date of 200 thirty. i urge you to go forward with the 3 plans as they are now to do so in more or less 3 months. go ahead with the 3 let us know what we're talking about. however, unless you get money to the planning department to fund long range planning for the city your successors in our chairs are going to have the same problem when 20040 comes up. you have an obligation to this city. we knew marketed street needed to be repaved. thank you >> next speaker please and good afternoon. i want to say and we want to see dedicated bicycling. we iceberg study of this projects. and we're going to be working with your department >> thank you. any other member of the public like to comment? no other comment? thank you for your presentation. and thank you all for being here as well. i apologize for the time you've spent here. i know we'll have more time and i look forward to commissioner wiener helping out with that progress. we can move on. >> information item and first of all, i want to thank commissioner chu
you, mr. chair mentioned the date of 200 thirty. i urge you to go forward with the 3 plans as they are now to do so in more or less 3 months. go ahead with the 3 let us know what we're talking about. however, unless you get money to the planning department to fund long range planning for the city your successors in our chairs are going to have the same problem when 20040 comes up. you have an obligation to this city. we knew marketed street needed to be repaved. thank you >> next speaker...
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. >> mr. clerk could you call item no. 3? >> item no. 3, ordinance amending the san francisco administrative code by adding section 16.702 and 16.29-7.6 to mandate payment to the city employees to offset federal income taxation on health insurance premiums for their same-sex spouses or same-sex domestic partners and to exclude such payments from the computation of compensation under the san francisco employees' retirement system. colleagues this legislation mandates payment to city employees to offset federal income taxation on health insurance premiums for their same-sex spouse and same-sex domestic partners and supports our lgbt. currently the way it stands the city employees will same-sex spouses or domestic partners elect to add their spouse or domestic partner to their health plan and in additional federal tax is taken out of think paycheck. the federal government views these to be taxable income. therefore city employees and others with same-sex spouses or domestic partners are taxed mor
. >> mr. clerk could you call item no. 3? >> item no. 3, ordinance amending the san francisco administrative code by adding section 16.702 and 16.29-7.6 to mandate payment to the city employees to offset federal income taxation on health insurance premiums for their same-sex spouses or same-sex domestic partners and to exclude such payments from the computation of compensation under the san francisco employees' retirement system. colleagues this legislation mandates payment to city...
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good morning mr. chair and members of committee and good morning to everyone else. before i start my presentation. we're going to play for you a quick audio and it is an audio of a real 911 call in a domestic violence case and we purposely did not use one of our own because we did not want the compromise the integrity of any cases that we have handled, but this particular [#1*-/] call is a real one and one that is being used for training and i think it begins to illustrate the point i will make through this presentation: >> 911 emergency. >> my mom and dad -- stop it! mommy! stop it. don't hit the baby! don't hit the baby! stop it! can you send the police, please? >> we'll be there in a minute. >> >> the reason why we started with this audio because i want to make sure that everyone in this room understands that often when we're talking about when we're talking about domestic violence is life-and-death. there are women that are being injured severely and occasionally women are dying. we're very fortunate that last year we did not have for the first anytime a decade
good morning mr. chair and members of committee and good morning to everyone else. before i start my presentation. we're going to play for you a quick audio and it is an audio of a real 911 call in a domestic violence case and we purposely did not use one of our own because we did not want the compromise the integrity of any cases that we have handled, but this particular [#1*-/] call is a real one and one that is being used for training and i think it begins to illustrate the point i will make...
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good afternoon, mr. chair. good afternoon, directors. mr. reiskin. i wanted to come for a moment and really thank everyone who has been involved in the conversation that we're about to have on the central subway and the pagoda theater. we've come a long way since last may when my office got a call on the same day as the first community meeting about the potential disruption related to the proposed construction on columbus avenue. and i know that so many folks here and in the community have been involved in a conversation of how we could really move forward with an obstruction plan that creates a win/win for the agency, for the community, for san francisco, and four our neighborhood. so, i just want to thank your staff. * i want to thank all of the planning department staff, the city attorney staff, but in particular the sfmta staff who have worked diligently for many, many months and around the clock since last year to make the pagoda option a near reality. i want to take a moment to thank director reiskin and john funge for their participation in co
good afternoon, mr. chair. good afternoon, directors. mr. reiskin. i wanted to come for a moment and really thank everyone who has been involved in the conversation that we're about to have on the central subway and the pagoda theater. we've come a long way since last may when my office got a call on the same day as the first community meeting about the potential disruption related to the proposed construction on columbus avenue. and i know that so many folks here and in the community have been...
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. >> mr. chair, item number 15 is an item regarding existing litigation. would you like to adopt a motion to move into closed session? >> yes. is there a motion? >> would you like to take public comment? >> is there any public comment about closed session? seeing none, closed session is closed. is a motion, is there a second? >> to go into closed session? >> yes. >> so moved. >> okay. without any objection, motion >> deputy city attorney john givener again. in the closed session the committee decided to move item 15 to the full board with recommendation. >> thank you. so, is there -- would you like to make a motion to -- >> yes. i'd like to make a motion that we not disclose the discussion from closed session. >> without any objection, motion passes. madam clerk, are there any other items? >> no, mr. chair. the agenda is completed. >> so, meeting adjourned? meeting adjourned. [adjourned]
. >> mr. chair, item number 15 is an item regarding existing litigation. would you like to adopt a motion to move into closed session? >> yes. is there a motion? >> would you like to take public comment? >> is there any public comment about closed session? seeing none, closed session is closed. is a motion, is there a second? >> to go into closed session? >> yes. >> so moved. >> okay. without any objection, motion >> deputy city attorney...
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thank you. >> mr. chair, do you want to open this up to public comment? >> with that, i would like to open up public comment. any members of the public who wish to comment on item no. 1 please step forward and if you would line up behind mr. paulson. >> good morning budget and finance committee. look at what happened to we? i'm walking on budget puc air. i never thought i could feel so budget-free, flying away on a budget wing and a prayer. who could it be? it's the puc. and it's a business opportunity. believe it or not, i'm walking on budget air. i never thought i could feel so budget-free. flying away on a wing and a prayer, who could it be? the budget is coming back with business opportunities. thanks. >> thank you. mr. paulson. my other members of public who wish to comment? please step forward. >> good morning, committee. my name is brian phils. the chairman of the san francisco public utilities commission small affairs committee for the puc. i would like to thank you guys for having this committee meeting in order for the -- excuse me -- for this c
thank you. >> mr. chair, do you want to open this up to public comment? >> with that, i would like to open up public comment. any members of the public who wish to comment on item no. 1 please step forward and if you would line up behind mr. paulson. >> good morning budget and finance committee. look at what happened to we? i'm walking on budget puc air. i never thought i could feel so budget-free, flying away on a budget wing and a prayer. who could it be? it's the puc. and...
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mr. reiskin, thank you for being here. >> thank you, mr. chair. members. thank you for accommodating the agenda adjustment. so, before you are two proposed leases with two different nonprofit corporations for two different garages that the sfmta manages. so, a little context here. we manage about 20 parking garages across the city. a number of them had nonprofits established in the 1950s and 1960s to manage the garages on behalf of the city. the main purpose of these nonprofits when they were established were to issue debt in order to facilitate capital improvements and expansions in these garages. over the course of the intervening 50 or 60 years, some of these nonprofit entities that have been managing the garages during that time, the role has really expanded into providing neighborhood-specific expertise and perspective, what they bring to bear on the management of the garages on behalf of the city, now the mta. they're typically populating the boards of these corporations or typically populated by merchants and other key neighborhood stakeholders that
mr. reiskin, thank you for being here. >> thank you, mr. chair. members. thank you for accommodating the agenda adjustment. so, before you are two proposed leases with two different nonprofit corporations for two different garages that the sfmta manages. so, a little context here. we manage about 20 parking garages across the city. a number of them had nonprofits established in the 1950s and 1960s to manage the garages on behalf of the city. the main purpose of these nonprofits when they...
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>> sure. >> thank you mr. chair and also defer to ms. miller on this. by understanding is there is more information we will get from the department of human resources and the clerk's office and so i know the report is here for the information and benefit of members of the commission and public but i would simply say it makes sense for us to continue this councilmember. >> okay. and ms. miller. >> yes. that's actually what is what i was going to say. we're not in the process of ready to act today so at the next meeting potentially. >> okay. very good. let's open this item up for public comment. any member of the public would like to comment on this item? seeing none we will close public comment. so colleagues we will continue this item to the next lafco meeting. >> so moved. >> very good. we will take that without objection. next item please. >> item seven office of workforce development report. >> i have no report. >> jason fried lafco staff. we know that one of the two positions at the board of supervisors the supervisor asked to join lafco so that wil
>> sure. >> thank you mr. chair and also defer to ms. miller on this. by understanding is there is more information we will get from the department of human resources and the clerk's office and so i know the report is here for the information and benefit of members of the commission and public but i would simply say it makes sense for us to continue this councilmember. >> okay. and ms. miller. >> yes. that's actually what is what i was going to say. we're not in the...
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. >> good afternoon, mr. chair, members of the board. staff and members of the public. just a follow-up thanks for the feedback on the workshop. and i would just add from those in the public who were not able to attend that there was a lot of good information that was provided both a number of different slide presentations as well as the draft of the bicycle strategy and the pedestrian strategy. they are up on our website. if you go to the mta board meeting site and click on, what was it, january 29th. there's a lot of good information there. i would encourage you to check it out and give us your feedback. and in the spirit of the acknowledgment that you made, mr. chair, of acknowledging the great work of staff, i'm happy to start out my report with special recognition awards for a small number of those staff that we want to honor today. so, first i'd like to ask our cfo ms. bose to come forward with lauren [speaker not understood]. lauren is a principal administrative analyst on the sf park team. she's been a member of that team since november 2009. she has led the pla
. >> good afternoon, mr. chair, members of the board. staff and members of the public. just a follow-up thanks for the feedback on the workshop. and i would just add from those in the public who were not able to attend that there was a lot of good information that was provided both a number of different slide presentations as well as the draft of the bicycle strategy and the pedestrian strategy. they are up on our website. if you go to the mta board meeting site and click on, what was it,...
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. >> thank you mr. chair. just a quick question. whenever you make this kind of investment you want to make sure you have a maintenance plan in place so you project that investment and make sure it lasts as possible so if you can briefly talk about that please. >> yeah. so there are two ways i like to talk about maintenance especially when talking about the muni fleelt and one is regular maintenance of the vehicles to keep them functioning and working and clean for the public as it is used day to day, and the other is the component replacements that are necessary on the fleet. for example a light rail vehicle needs to last 25 years and over the life of that vehicle major components like the trucks need to be replaced and we don't have the resources within the region to always do that. currently on the one fleet we have funds to do limited truck replacement because when the components fail the vehicles is out of service and sometimes a long-term period as we wait for the parts to come and that's why we don't always have the availabil
. >> thank you mr. chair. just a quick question. whenever you make this kind of investment you want to make sure you have a maintenance plan in place so you project that investment and make sure it lasts as possible so if you can briefly talk about that please. >> yeah. so there are two ways i like to talk about maintenance especially when talking about the muni fleelt and one is regular maintenance of the vehicles to keep them functioning and working and clean for the public as it...
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thank you. >> commissioner campos. >> thank you mr. chair. if i may add a couple of points to my colleagues. the way the process for funding these projects works under prop k is that the county transportation authority staff gets a request from the agency. in this case it's the muni, mta, and they make an assessment analysis whether or not their request is consistent with the goals and the objectives of prop k, and based on that analysis they make this recommendation. my suggestion would be to the mta given the questions that have been asked, which i think are on point. it's useful going forward for the mta to sit down with the individual supervisors. we're asking to spend money on a particular project in a certain district and you sit down with the supervisor before you come to plans and programs because as supervisor breed rightly points out there's a question of is this really the best way to use these funds? we know that legally programmatically it's good to do that but in need to a specific neighborhood is this the best way to invest it?
thank you. >> commissioner campos. >> thank you mr. chair. if i may add a couple of points to my colleagues. the way the process for funding these projects works under prop k is that the county transportation authority staff gets a request from the agency. in this case it's the muni, mta, and they make an assessment analysis whether or not their request is consistent with the goals and the objectives of prop k, and based on that analysis they make this recommendation. my suggestion...
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president chiu is the author of item number 5. >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, as you may have been following the newspapers, there have been discussions about changing the location of where the tunnel boring machine for the central subway will be extracted from the currently proposed site on columbus to pulling it out from the so-called pagoda theater site. these are -- this is a proposal that a number of city departments in my office have been working on for a number of months and i am hopeful that we are at the tail end of negotiations with the owner of the pagoda theater on the site, but at this point we are not completely finished with those negotiations. and, so, just as last thurs at the planning commission we asked that the item be continued, i would ask that we continue this item to monday, february 25th in order to finish those negotiations and have fully vetted plans for us to discuss here. >> thank you. so, there's a motion by president chiu to continue this item item number 5 to february 25th. supervisor kim, any comment on that? >> i'm
president chiu is the author of item number 5. >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, as you may have been following the newspapers, there have been discussions about changing the location of where the tunnel boring machine for the central subway will be extracted from the currently proposed site on columbus to pulling it out from the so-called pagoda theater site. these are -- this is a proposal that a number of city departments in my office have been working on for a number of months and...